Pirates: Adventurers of the High Seas

By David F. Marley

From ancient Rome to the Chinese empire, from the Greeks to the Normans, pirates have affected economies and governments for eons by disrupting trade routes and terrorizing citizens. Early on, they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854092154
• ISBN13: 9781854092151
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Arms & Armour
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A well documented book on the Pirates of the New World.

"Pirates, Adventurers of the High Seas", by David F. Marley constitutes a well researched and entertaining book on the History of Pirates in the New World. It is a remarkable narration of the rise of buccannering, and the realities which made it possible. It also discusses the decline of Piracy in the American Continent, and the changing conditions in politics, economy and war that left no place for pirates in the Western World. The last chapter describing the "Golden Age of Piracy" is accurately entitled as the "Pirate Swan-Song" because it describes the end of piratical activities in the American Continent, when the most famous pirate chieftains, such as Blackbeard, Major Bonnet, Calico Jack and Charles Vane were hanged, and the Pirate Brethern lost most of their leaders. Based on an extense biographical selection and first hand accounts, Professor Marley focuses mainly on the "Age of Buccannering", and reviews the turbulent relations between the Spanish Crown and the English and French Filibustiers who plundered the Spanish towns and ports in a secret and bizarre aliance with the English and French Crowns.